Five Northern Kentucky players selected for Kentucky-Indiana series

One Northern Kentucky boy and 4 native women will probably be a part of the Kentucky All-Stars basketball groups that may face Indiana in June of their annual summer season sequence. Tryouts have been final weekend.

The Kentucky-Indiana All-Stars video games yearly match the highest senior basketball gamers from every state. This yr’s video games are set for June 10 on the Owensboro Sportscenter and June 11 at Southport Excessive College in Indianapolis.

Covington Catholic’s Mitchell Rylee was chosen to the Kentucky boys workforce.

Picks to the ladies workforce embrace Notre Dame’s Macie Feldman, Conner’s Lauren Hawthorne, Ludlow’s Jenna Lillard and Newport Central Catholic’s Rylee Turner.

Aside from Hawthorne, the opposite 4 performed within the Ohio-Kentucky senior all-star video games earlier this month at Thomas Extra. 

The Indiana women workforce has Hope Fox of East Central, who was named to the workforce final month. Fox, a Southern Connecticut State commit, helped East Central to its third-straight 3A sectional title. EC head coach Kevin Moore is on the All-Star teaching workers.

Mr. Basketball Turner Buttry of Bowling Inexperienced and Miss Basketball Amiya Jenkins of Anderson County mechanically certified for the groups and can put on the No. 1 jerseys for Kentucky in opposition to Indiana. Buttry has signed with Jap Kentucky College, and Jenkins is headed to the College of Kentucky.

Each of them performed within the Ohio-Kentucky video games as effectively. 

Covington Catholic head coach Scott Ruthsatz would be the head coach of the Kentucky workforce.

Notre Dame head coach Kes Murphy will probably be an assistant coach for the Kentucky women workforce.

Indiana will probably be led by Mr. Basketball Braden Smith of Westfield and Miss Basketball Ayanna Patterson of Homestead. Smith has signed with Purdue, and Patterson has signed with Connecticut.

The Indiana women workforce additionally has two Michigan commits in Kate Clarke (Carmel) and Alyssa Crockett (Westfield), Maryland commit Mila Reynolds (South Bend Washington) and Purdue commit Lilly Stoddard (Crown Level). 

Listed below are the complete Kentucky rosters:

Boys: Turner Buttry (Bowling Inexperienced), Keno Hayden (Ballard), James Jewell (Marion County), Jaiden Lawrence (Warren Central), Darien Lewis (Fern Creek), Andrew Mason (Bardstown), Jay Milburn (Campbellsville), Sam Powell (Oldham County), Mitchell Rylee (Covington Catholic), Jabrion Spikes (Caldwell County), Gavin Stevens (Pulaski County), Cade Stinnett (Greenwood). Head coach – Scott Ruthsatz (Covington Catholic). Assistant coaches – Rod Drake (Owensboro), Jason Mays (Ashland Blazer).

Women: Amiya Jenkins (Anderson County), Jaileyah Cotton (Bardstown), Amaya Curry (Apollo), Macie Feldman (Notre Dame), Josie Gilvin (Sacred Coronary heart), Lauren Hawthorne (Conner), Jenna Lillard (Ludlow), Monica Lindsey (Central Hardin), Gracie Merkle (Bullitt East), Riley Neal (North Oldham), Cassidy Rowe (Shelby Valley), Rylee Turner (Newport Central Catholic). Head coach – Judie Mason (Danville). Assistant coaches – Pete Fraley (Boyd County), Kes Murphy (Notre Dame), Tryston Ford (Danville), Lee Meadows (Franklin County).